East meets west. Elegance meets feminism. Bibhu Mohapatra is looking to the past to help women secure the future as we map out our struggles and turn them into our strengths. Bibhu Mohapatra has understood struggle this past year, as reported by Vogue, filing bankruptcy wasn’t easy but he did it with a strong sense of optimism. “I’m going through a change but my business is stronger than ever.” He saw that going through this major change as a designer was not a set back, it was a way to inspire his next collection. Mohapatra empathizes with the difficulties that women go through, especially when it comes to the comparison between the sexes. A few months back, the designer stumbled across an article on famous women explorers. The designer shared with Vogue, “When we talk about explorers, it’s always male names, but there were so many female explorers from this